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  1. AnnieS

    Silly Stuff that you have Worn on Camino - Pics

    No rain pants. No problem. Garbage bag skirt!
  2. AnnieS

    Nicknaming the People You Walk With

    Camino Queen, who had the hospitalero at her beck and call. Also spent 45 minutes arranging and rearranging her suitcase when she arrived, flipped the lights on at 6 a.m. to again rearrange her suitcase. Never saw her again. Lonesome Jim, who wound up walking with us for a couple of days, but...
  3. AnnieS

    DIY hiking wool?

    I use hiker's wool. You don't need to add lanolin as sheep's wool naturally has lanolin. I wouldn't use raw unwashed sheep's wool because you could risk infection (sheep's woo is quite dirty). What you want is carded wool rovings or ropings, or wool that's been washed and ready for spinning. You...
  4. AnnieS

    Travelling from Paris to St. Jean and Santiago back to Paris

    We flew IcelandAir this fall from Edmonton, AB to Paris (Charles de Gaulle airport). From there we flew on EasyJet to Biarritz/Bayonne. We stayed overnight in Bayonne near the train station and caught the train the next morning to St. Jean. On the return we flew from Santiago to Madrid (on...
  5. AnnieS

    Beautiful and poignant radio documentary about the Camino

    @timr Thanks for passing along the podcast. Looking forward to listening to it!
  6. AnnieS

    Beautiful and poignant radio documentary about the Camino

    @movinmaggie, @Icacos I am so glad you were able to listen to it :) I think I will listen to again, for the third time!
  7. AnnieS

    Beautiful and poignant radio documentary about the Camino

    On no! Darn it. I so wished everyone who wanted to listen would be able to.
  8. AnnieS

    Beautiful and poignant radio documentary about the Camino

    I want to share a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) radio documentary called "Oliver Schroer's Musical Pilgrimage on the Camino". I've listened to it twice (it's about 50 minutes) and leaves me so moved. If you have time, do listen. It's poignant and so insightful. The violin music is...
  9. AnnieS

    Last minute fretting...the way home and airline boarding passes

    So now I have to try to stuff a printer into my 34L pack? :confused:
  10. AnnieS

    Where did you walk today?

    Did some hiking. Nothing crazy. Climbed a mountain and whatever.
  11. AnnieS

    Blister Prevention and Foot Care

    I second Hikers Wool - amazing stuff. There is one distributor for North America out of Colorado. I ordered a bag ($15.00 and free shipping to Canada) and realized it is carded wool (wool that is ready to be spun). Luckily my mother is a spinner and weaver and has 60 bags of carded wool!! More...
  12. AnnieS

    Feeling overwhelmed

    Beanie, knitted cap...I don't know why everyone else in the world doesn't call it what it really is: a toque, haha. (Someone once said to me, "nice knitted cap". And I was like, huh? What's that?) And don't confuse it with 'toke'. You can't smoke a toque ;)
  13. AnnieS

    Feeling overwhelmed

    A 'toque' (or tuque - rhymes with Luke) is a very Canadian word. It's what everyone else in the world calls a knitted cap. Everyone in Canada wears a toque, not a knitted cap ;)
  14. AnnieS

    Airfare costs

    We booked several months ago with Icelandair for September Camino. Edmonton, Alberta to Paris (with one hour stopover in Iceland) was $1030 CAD. Happy with that, considering we can pay almost that much just to fly from Alberta to Nova Scotia to visit family!
  15. AnnieS

    Have been doing it wrong all these years

    Ha! As a writer, I've been doing it wrong all these years! I should be using adjectives much more creatively ;)
  16. AnnieS

    ear plugs

    @JohnandDeborah Where do you go to get custom earplugs? I'm thinking that's what I need!
  17. AnnieS

    Trail Running Shoes

    I'm a trail runner. I run and walk 100s of km in trail running shoes on paved trails, dirt trails and downright gnarly trails. Unless they are cheap knock offs they should last the entire Camino.
  18. AnnieS

    ear plugs

    @rossmckay Thanks for the info! I'll check into the Howard Leight Laser earplugs to see if they are available here in Canada. I like that you say they don't press hard when they expand. I find the foam ones hurt when they expand. The other alternative is to let my ear wax really build up and...
  19. AnnieS

    ear plugs

    Any alternatives to earplugs? I have problems using them - they don't stay in my ears too well (very narrow ear canal), plus they make my ears itchy (allergy to the material?) which can lead to outer ear infection. I don't want to spend money investing in noise canceling headphones and I don't...
  20. AnnieS

    Sock problem

    I swear by WrightSock Merino Stride 1/4 socks. They are double layer with inner synthetic layer and soft, fine merino blend outer layer. I wear them in Canada winter AND summer for running. I'll be wearing them for walking the Camino in September/October. Never had a blister, and I've run 50 km...

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